Every Lunatico product exists because something kept going wrong at 3am and someone got tired of it. Find your particular flavour of 3am problem below.
Complete guide
Automate Your Observatory—from cloud sensor to closed loop
The sky lies. It looks clear, you start an 8-hour sequence, and a thin haze rolls in two hours later and ruins the lot. Knowing whether it's truly clear or deceptively thin is the difference between a productive night and damaged equipment—our cloud and sky sensors give you real data to make that call automatically, so you don't have to squint at the stars and guess.
CloudWatcher
The original, since 2008. Clouds, rain, light, wind, humidity, pressure. With hardware relay included.
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PocketCW2
Portable, Wi-Fi cloud detector for taking with you—not for permanent outdoor installation.
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New · 2026
Lanternfish
Wi-Fi MPSAS sky quality meter. Know your bortle from your phone.
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SOLO CloudWatcher
The CloudWatcher's companion: adds web server, 24/7 monitoring and push alerts without a PC. Requires a CloudWatcher.
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Opening and closing a roof or dome is the easy part. Full observatory control means sequencing everything—roof, mount, observatory devices, power, safety monitors...—from a single device, remotely, automatically, while you sleep like a person with a normal hobby.
Starling
Multi-user shared observatory controller. Manages multiple telescopes and users under a shared roof, featuring safeguards.
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DragonFly
The complete observatory automation hub. Roof, mount, observatory devices, actions on safety status updates, all from one unit.
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Caterpillar
Caterpillar Dome Full Control for domes, plus the SSR for stepper roll-off roofs and a relay retrofit for manually operated observatories.
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Beaver
Dome controller for NexDomes.
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The internet drops, the PC crashes, or an automation sequence goes sideways at the worst possible moment—it always does. You need a last line of defence that operates independently from everything else. These products protect your equipment when everything else has already let you down.
LLLOD
Lunatico Last Line of Defence. Closes your roof no matter what: no PC, no software, no network required.
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Free
GNS—Good Night System
The only true solution to be able to sleep. Real-time observatory monitoring and alerts to your smartphone, free to download and use.
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Two decades of building sensors that have to work unattended, outdoors, every night, turn out to be useful well beyond amateur observatories. We are now taking that same hardware to industrial and integration work—devices designed to be built into someone else's automation, monitoring or control system rather than sold as a finished instrument.
Dew doesn't negotiate. One thin film on the corrector plate and your session is over, full stop. Dew heaters that run at full power all night drain your battery and introduce unwanted thermal currents in the optical path—intelligent dew control runs at exactly the power needed, and not a watt more.
Manually chasing focus every time the temperature drifts a degree gets old fast. Precise electronic focus control eliminates thermal drift across a session and enables fully automated focusing runs, while rotator control keeps your framing consistent through meridian flips. Our controllers are compatible with virtually every stepper and DC motor focuser on the market—so you don't have to replace what already works.
Seletek / Armadillo / Platypus
Multi-port focuser and rotator controller family. Drive up to three motors from a single device.
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Limpet
Compact, mount-friendly focuser and rotator controller with built-in Wi-Fi and INDI server.
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Autonomous
Not every setup has a PC out at the telescope. An autonomous controller runs focus sequences on its own—it watches temperature, triggers a run when conditions change, and keeps the image sharp through the night in a completely headless setup.
Tarsier
Autonomous focus controller—runs focus sequences independently, no PC on site needed. Temperature-compensated, Wi-Fi connected.
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Bolting a second telescope onto your mount usually means wrestling with extra counterweights and a setup that flexes exactly when you need it not to. Dual-telescope setups that share a single mount need a better way to balance the optical train and keep both scopes independently adjustable. The DuoScope system provides a rigid, adaptable mounting solution for paired imaging and guiding setups.
